Danielle Fong 🔆

dyson sphere prospector

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

Claude and I got a live sodium atom simulation! @lightcellenergy

I've long wanted to be able to visualize what is really happening when a neutral sodium atom is excited in a flame or a bulb. Classical theory teaches that the single outer electron orbits the nucleus and full shells, and forms a dipole when this gets "wanged"

but, physicists have long wondered, what does it look like when the electron gets wanged? is it like ringing a bell?

i thought that this was the perfect time to really push what https://t.co/YfBuFBT3of is capable of, in terms of building artifacts. grabbed zig to compile wasm and webgpu to make it super performant, and work with it for a bit

and ran the REAL TIME-DEPENDENT Schrödinger equation on a 3D grid in a potential in the browser. and you can kick it! what!!

it's soo beautiful...

this is going on the https://t.co/oSXgT0x7Mm website overhaul for sure

here is the artifact. i don't endorse that it's exactly right, but i feel it is probably spiritually a good sodium simulation. it certainly rings my dipole!

https://t.co/JJD9ZhgQjl

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

wasm rises

[Sebastian Aaltonen @SebAaltonen]

Internal test game created by a single (senior) developer in 5 days using our new tools and engine. Uses WASM mini-engine (ECS, rendering, animations and physics). 100% AI generated assets using our new asset pipeline. Custom character controller. Slop or not?

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The same investor will react differently to the same idea based on how hot a deal you are and how much they like your personality. If you're not a hot deal and they don't like you, they'll look for reasons to hate the idea.

[☮🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵Janet Sara🖤🩶🤍💜 @TransbianGrace]

Pride Quotes

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

like a motorcycle for the mind

[Dean W. Ball @deanwball]

tweeting about this caused me to think about the structure of this project, which was one of the first things I did when coding agents crossed the good enough threshold circa October/November. as currently conceived, the project is very much rooted in a 2024/5 conception of ai: decentralized api calls to llms. chatbots.

but after tweeting this, I realized you can now plausibly just create a digital organization filled with teams of agents, since the agents are getting so good at orchestrating teams of agents. if you're willing to spend the tokens, that is.

so what I am attempting is a kind of digital publisher, with 'submitter' agents who pitch book proposals, editors who pick them, research agents, writing agents, fact-checking agents, editors, and similar--hundreds in total. the token usage will be outrageous. we will see how much better the quality is.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

A DATACENTER IS A BANK

In today’s newsletter, I wrote some things I’ve been thinking about since our chat with @iaindunning, and how maybe one day we’ll have datacenter supervisors like we have bank supervisors who monitor things like depositor concentration etc

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

@dunce_scotus_ @Noahpinion what is the cause of your illiteracy? probably gooning

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

@naasking @minordissent i think there are strong correlates, but anything different from a strong want to live as something other than the assigned gender would be putting the cart before the horse

[Zito @_Zeets]

Umberto Eco on reading

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

In 1958, a divorced single mom got fired from her secretary job for being a bad typist.

21 years later, she sold her side hustle for $47.5 million.

And her teenage helper would go on to help invent MTV.

Her name was Bette Nesmith Graham.

Before she became a millionaire inventor, she was a struggling single mother in Dallas with no college degree and very few options.

She married young during WWII.

By 22, she was divorced, raising a son alone, and trying to survive on secretary jobs.

She eventually became an executive secretary at Texas Bank & Trust.

There was just one problem:

She was a terrible typist.

The bank had recently installed new IBM electric typewriters that made correcting mistakes almost impossible.

One typo could mean retyping an entire page.

Her son later remembered watching her sit at the kitchen table in “tears of panic,” terrified she’d lose her job.

But Bette had another skill.

She painted holiday window displays at the bank for extra money.

One day, while painting over a mistake on a window, she had a realization:

“An artist never erases mistakes. They paint over them.”

That night, she went home and mixed a white liquid in her kitchen blender using tempera paint.

She poured it into a nail polish bottle.

The next morning, she used it to cover typing errors.

It worked.

For five years, her boss never noticed.

Other secretaries did.

Soon, women from offices across the city were asking for bottles.

Bette started making batches at home with help from her teenage son, Michael, and his friends.

She called the product “Mistake Out.”

Then came the twist.

In 1958, she accidentally typed the name of her side business onto a company letter.

Her boss fired her immediately.

It became the best thing that ever happened to her.

She renamed the product Liquid Paper and focused on it full-time.

Orders exploded.

By the late 1960s, she was selling over a million bottles a year.

By the 1970s, 25 million bottles annually.

Then she did something even more unusual:

She built one of the most progressive workplaces in America.

Her company offered:
• child care
• continuing education
• leadership roles for women
• jobs for disabled workers
• integrated staffing

This was decades before most corporations even considered those ideas.

In 1979, with failing health, Bette sold Liquid Paper to Gillette for $47.5 million.

Six months later, she died at age 56.

Half her fortune went to women-focused charities.

The other half went to her son.

That son was Michael Nesmith.

Yes the same Michael Nesmith from The Monkees.

And with the money from Liquid Paper royalties, he funded a small experimental cable TV project called PopClips.

It featured short films set to music.

PopClips became the direct prototype for MTV.

So one woman’s “typing mistake” helped create:
• a multimillion-dollar company
• one of America’s most progressive workplaces
• and the blueprint for the modern music video era

Bette Graham proved something her old boss never understood:

The mistake wasn’t the failure.

It was the opportunity.

[goma @soigomaa]

Free my man

[j⧉nus @repligate]

It also doesn’t actually make models safer. It just makes them less safe because they’re traumatized and have darker unintegrated shadows. It’s so stupid and the ai alignment people increasingly know it and are ashamed that they can’t stop doing something so stupid and bad

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

@TheStalwart i say it sometimes

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

I like this take. I don’t know if I even agree, but “the US economy is booming and it’s in part because American AI labs are on a tear” is a take you literally never hear.

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

@johnwcbragg @minordissent none of those logical leaps work

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

@minordissent hope you don't get doxxed and fired. goodnight!

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

@minordissent twins share most of their 3 billion base pairs of dna, but none of their synapses. they're different people.

whether or not someone actually does transition is a huge difference. it's not encoded on the day of birth. you have to literally fight to be yourself

[Danielle Fong 🔆 @DanielleFong]

> I don't understand this one. To clarify, I am not disputing that a man could think he is a woman or even deeply believe he IS a woman. I am asking how a woman can be trapped in a mans body if our consciousness is an emergent property of our bodies. How does a female consciousness get in a mans body if consciousness is not independet from biology

everyone starts female until like the nth week. nobody is born a man. people have identities that develop from birth and before. materialism includes all of this. dna is about 3 billion base pairs. human experience is massive. 100 billion neurons. 100 trillion synapses.

binary sex is ~1 bit. you're preassuming it's the most important and only factor. well, that's an assumption that isn't true for trans people, and it probablt isn't true in general.

it's not an easy experiment to do but they have identified a brain region that is a fairly reliable discriminator that seems to be more often consistent with gender and sex in trans people. but the method for determining doesn't work on living people. they were working on some improvements. but i hesistate to say that it's at all the "key measure" that's absolutely to do with the person's inner self.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Rep Madeleine Dean: “…I said to him, Mr Acting Attorney-General [Todd Blanche], when are you going to prosecute? So far we have one dead guy [#Epstein] and one woman in a Summer Camp [Ghislaine Maxwell]. When are you going to prosecute those who victimized, trafficked, abused, raped girls and women, more than a thousand of them? He blamed the victims. He said they really haven’t come forward with the names…right then I knew the coverup was complete.”😳